Fukushima’s glow-in-the-dark rice can’t pass Japan’s own standards

Back March, the 3Yen reported on the Japan’s “creative” solution of Feeding radioactive rice to the elderly(3Yen / 2012-03-26).
Well now, the Japanese government is reluctantly admitting that rice from the greater Fukushima area outside the official 20km nuclear meltdown zone can’t pass the government’s contamination standards.

Fukushima rice above threshold for cesiumThe Japan Times | Oct. 25, 2012
FUKUSHIMA — Rice grown by a farmer in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture, returned a radioactive cesium reading of 110 becquerels per kilogram, exceeding the maximum of 100, the prefectural government announced…more...